Smarhon
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Smarhon (Belarusian: Смаргонь, Smarhoń, IPA: [smar'ɣonʲ]; Russian: Сморгонь, Lithuanian: Smurgainys, Polish: Smorgonie) is a city in Hrodna Voblast, Belarus. It is located at . It was the site of Smarhon air base, now mostly abandoned.
- Peter Blume (1906–1992) US painter, in magic realism style
- Alexander Deruga, Belarussian musician and folklore researcher, founder of the Smarhon cymbals orchestra
- Abba Gordin, Belarussian Yiddish writer, playwright and theatre director, founder of the Hebrew school "Ivriya" in Smarhon, settled later in USA
- Aharon Abraham Kabak (1881–1944) Hebrew writer, settled in Palestine
- Moyshe Kulbak (1896–1937) Belarussian Yiddish poet, writer, executed by the NKVD
- Abraham Isaac Kook, Jewish theologist, rabbi, was Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Palestine, learned in Smarhon yeshiva with rabbi Noakh Shapira
- David Kussevitzki (1911–1985) Polish-US Jewish cantor
- Moshe Kussevitzki (1899–1966) Polish-US Jewish cantor
- Ida Lazarovich Gilman or Ida Mett (1901–1973) Russian anarchist militant and author, exiled in France
- Rabbi Menashe ben Porat from Ilia or Menashe m'Ilia (1767–1831) Belarussian-Lithuanian Jewish scholar, near to Haskalah trend
- Karol Dominik Przezdziecki (1782–1832) Polish count, fighter for the liberation of Poland in the revolt of 1830–1831
- David Raziel (1910–1941) fighter for the emancipation of Jews in Palestine, commander of the Irgun Tzvai Leumi nationalist resistance organization, was killed in Iraq in an anti-Nazi mission
- Esther Raziel Naor (1911–2002) Israeli politician, was militant in the Irgun Jewish nationalist resistance during the British mandate in Palestine
- William Schwartz (1896–1977) US painter
- Nachum Slushch (1871–1969 Israeli historian, archeologist and Hebrew writer
- Avraham Sutzkever (1913–) Israeli yiddish poet